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A dense crowd moves down a narrow city street during a procession, with many people walking shoulder to shoulder. In the foreground a young man in white clothes and a rudraksha mala holds a lit flame in a metal vessel and a small offering, with a vertical sacred mark on his forehead. Behind him a person in a saffron-orange garment carries a burning lamp, and women in blue, purple and yellow saris walk among the crowd. On the right stands a colourful gopuram-style South Indian temple tower decorated with painted sculptures, beside multi-storey concrete buildings, a shuttered shop and laundry hanging on a balcony. A timestamp in red digits appears along the left edge. Several people look out from balconies above the street.

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October 31 20062006-10-31October 31 20062006-10-31A blurred street photograph of a dense crowd during a procession in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti stands center with his back to the camera, wearing an orange shawl over one shoulder and holding a lit flame or lamp aloft. Around him, many people in white, orange, blue, green and red clothing press forward, some reaching out with hands raised. A yellow auto-rickshaw is visible at the top of the street. Stalls and buildings line the road. The image shows a Kodikkan Ratha Yatra procession of deities, and the caption describes the procession of Sri Nithyanandeshwara and Nithyanandeshwari.2006-10-31October 31 20062006-10-31Street-level photograph of a crowded Indian residential lane during a procession. A crowd of devotees lines both sides of the road in front of multi-storey buildings. A man in a white dhoti and shirt stands at centre-left facing others, and a man in a white shirt holds papers at right. Women wear sarees in orange, green, blue and pink, with children in white, red and blue clothes. A tricolour-striped awning hangs over a shop front on the left, and a red car and motorcycles sit on the road.2006-10-31October 31 20062006-10-31November 01 20062006-11-01October 31 20062006-10-31Outdoor photograph of a crowd gathered around an open flame at a temple-side street. In the foreground a bare-chested priest with a white cloth wrapped at his waist and a shaved head tends the fire, while a woman in a white sari stands beside it with her hands extended toward the flames. Nearby devotees in white shirts, blue salwar kameez and saris in yellow, green and blue watch, some with palms joined. A blue painted temple wall with a deity mural rises behind them. A large crowd of roughly thirty visible people fills the lane, and an orange-clad figure stands among them.2006-11-01October 25 20062006-10-25November 01 20062006-11-01October 31 20062006-10-31